I liked this movie...but it was borderline too weird for me to enjoy it at the end.

Visually the movie is stunning. Very impressed with what they could do for $40m. The world they created is so interesting. The score was also great throughout and left me feeling very anxious.

The bear screaming like the dying woman was terrifying. That made my skin crawl, speaking of which, Kane cutting open the guy and seeing the worms in him, omg, that was a bad moment to have a mouthful of popcorn.

So what the heck happened? Did real Kane kill himself and alien copy came out? Portman is the real one, but part of the copy is still in her? I didn't understand how it all ended. I was predicting the leader (with cancer) was going to be absorbed by it and she would kill it once it was infected with her cancer. That would have been interesting, but I don't think the alien was bad, it was just trying to copy humans?

One compliant was the flashback affair stuff. I kept waiting for those to have a huge plot point like the "flashbacks" in Arrival, but nothing came from them. I guess they were just there to show Kane's motivation for taking the mission?

Tyler wrote:Source of the postSo what the heck happened? Did real Kane kill himself and alien copy came out?

This is how i interpreted it. Somehow the alien becomes the person, with some character traits embedded in them. But they are not them,, like how at the beginning when Kane "recognized" Portman, I think? But then also in the end when Portman asked him if he was Kane and he said he didn't think so.

I was typing more out but the more i typed the more confused i was getting. Because it doesn't really make sense. Portman is now an alien, right? or at least htat is what the fire in the eyes at the end of the movie suggests. But we see portman kill the alien, right? That doesn't make sense to me. If she killed the alien, then why does she have the fire? IF she didn't kill the alien how does she have all of her memories?

The soundtrack was AWESOME. Very loud, very creepy, very anxious.

Affair stuff was really dumb.

Tyler wrote:Source of the post That would have been interesting, but I don't think the alien was bad, it was just trying to copy humans?

This really made me want to rewatch a Dr Who episode, where an alien is learning what humans are. The alien starts copying what the humans are doing, movements at first, and then speaking, and then they start speaking at the same time, and then eventually the alien starts talking BEFORE the humans. Super trippy. makes your skin crawl. One of the best episodes of dr who.

I agree with both of you. Real Kane is dead, new Kane is an alien. Portman gets more complicated because we see the real her kill the alien and escape. My thoughts are that it's the real Portman but part of the alien is in her because of the time spent in the shimmer. We saw multiple instances of the shimmer environment "refracting" human DNA of the people who were in it (gross wormy intestines, angry gal talking about her fingerprints wiggling, cutter gal having flowers grow out of her scars and then turn into a flower). So I think something like that also happened to Portman and stuck with her after the shimmer was destroyed. I'm not really sure what consequences that has for the rest of the world that there's one full alien Kane and one part alien Portman that survived.